My that's a big turtle you have there. What do you do with that? Eat? Are you kidding? Oh, the whole village eats off it. For ceremonies? Ah, I see. Good idea. Maybe we'll just throw a gigantic wooden turtle on the table at the next family reunion to cut down on clean up. Brilliant!
Kava, freshly picked, dried and ready to grind. Add water and you have the most popular drink in all the islands of Vanuatu. Each island has a kava plant different than all the others. They ship heaps of it to Fiji, Samoa, The Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and Hawaii. It acts as a mucle relaxer and something else I can't remember. It was a major part of each nightly ritual.
Our little pyro's dream life, fires (four in one room!) in the house!! They were exceptional at building long lasting hot fires and they keep them going all night long. The smoke works it's way out the woven ceilings. Yes, it's hard to breath, but you're so darn tired sleep does come.
Big scary warrior! This is John and his little boy. Too gorgeous. Or as they might say in Bislama, Gorgus tomas!
Jeremy was the only one to get this kind of VIP treatment!
This is our guide family. Bart and boys with Vira, Mura, Donald (forward), Vitu (in blue), Alexi (Namba 1 Guide Leader) and Avo. They were extremely helpful and carried ridiculous quantities of our stuff (most of it unnecessary!) up that trail. Could not have done it without them.
This was taken from the road looking up towards our destination. Maracae is nestled somewhere behing those clouds on that furthest mountain top. Boy was I excited! (whatever!)
My that's a big turtle you have there. What do you do with that? Eat? Are you kidding? Oh, the whole village eats off it. For ceremonies? Ah, I see. Good idea. Maybe we'll just throw a gigantic wooden turtle on the table at the next family reunion to cut down on clean up. Brilliant!
Kava, freshly picked, dried and ready to grind. Add water and you have the most popular drink in all the islands of Vanuatu. Each island has a kava plant different than all the others. They ship heaps of it to Fiji, Samoa, The Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and Hawaii. It acts as a mucle relaxer and something else I can't remember. It was a major part of each nightly ritual. 
Our little pyro's dream life, fires (four in one room!) in the house!! They were exceptional at building long lasting hot fires and they keep them going all night long. The smoke works it's way out the woven ceilings. Yes, it's hard to breath, but you're so darn tired sleep does come.
Big scary warrior! This is John and his little boy. Too gorgeous. Or as they might say in Bislama, Gorgus tomas!
Jeremy was the only one to get this kind of VIP treatment!
This is our guide family. Bart and boys with Vira, Mura, Donald (forward), Vitu (in blue), Alexi (Namba 1 Guide Leader) and Avo. They were extremely helpful and carried ridiculous quantities of our stuff (most of it unnecessary!) up that trail. Could not have done it without them. 
This was taken from the road looking up towards our destination. Maracae is nestled somewhere behing those clouds on that furthest mountain top. Boy was I excited! (whatever!)
2 comments:
Your life is crazy...I can't keep up with it. Where in the world are you? Holy cow, girl.
Wow what an adventure!! Sounds like you like to have FUN. I'm so jealous...
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